finlay wrote:
> Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> finlay wrote:
>>>>> Joacim J wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> I have read about Josh White's problem with Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 => 8.04.
>>>> However, is there anyone that have done a *successful* upgrade with
>>>> functional MythTV from Ubuntu's repository?
>>>>>>> I did a FE/BE upgrade (Ubuntu 704->710 with myth on top) a couple of
>>> days ago. I had a problem with fstab because I had a pata drive for my
>>> system disk that got renamed to /dev/sda from /dev/hda and I used the
>>> partition names instead of labels for mounting.
>>>>> Don't use names or labels. UUIDs are used by default in Ubuntu. You should
>> stick to these.
>> They are used for this exact reason of upgrades risking breaking things.
>>> How does one find out what the UUID of a parition is?
>> Hal can be a problem
>>>>> since the rc*.d links are different in 804 from 710. Nothing major - was
>>> up and recording in a couple of hours or so. Another system (no myth)
>>> took more work but I expected it since I had compiled and installed a
>>> bunch of stuff from source including dbus. Hosed hal and avahi-daemon
>>> for a while but I wouldn't expect any problems from a relatively
>>> standard 7.10.
>>>>>>>> Compiling from source on core services can lead to a fair deal of trouble.
>> Why'd you do that in the first place?
>>> Had to upgrade these packages to do development on some other packages.
>>> Oddly enough the worst problem was with a 710 mythbuntu that wouldn't
>>> start X, etc. I finally just wiped the disk and installed mythbuntu 804
>>> on top and will probably go diskless on it now that mythbuntu makes
>>> setting up diskless clients easy.
>>>>> Did you see the details surrounding this? There has been a few reports of
>> linux-restricted-modules not getting upgraded when the upgrade happened.
>>> Tried the beta and rc diskless but had a number of problems using the
> mcc image builds. Didn't see the reports you mentioned.
>> Thanks
>> John
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